The in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the cir­cum­stances sur­round­ing a dead­ly fire that claimed the lives of D’Abadie/O’Meara MP and Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion, Lisa Mor­ris-Ju­lian, 48, and two of her chil­dren and the re­sponse of the Fire Ser­vice has been com­plet­ed.

The find­ings, com­piled in a com­pre­hen­sive re­port, have been sub­mit­ted to the Min­istry of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty for re­view by Min­is­ter Fitzger­ald Hinds.

This was con­firmed yes­ter­day to Guardian Me­dia by Roo­sevelt Bruce, for­mer Chief Fire Of­fi­cer and chair­man of the three-mem­ber in­ves­tiga­tive com­mit­tee ap­point­ed by the min­istry. Bruce, how­ev­er, de­clined to re­veal the date of com­ple­tion.

“It’s with the Min­istry of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty. It was sub­mit­ted. I re­al­ly don’t want to say much. In fact, all I want to say is that it was sub­mit­ted, and they have it,” Bruce stat­ed.

Act­ing Chief Fire Of­fi­cer Andy Hutchin­son al­so con­firmed that the Fire Ser­vice had con­duct­ed its own in­ves­ti­ga­tion and sub­mit­ted its find­ings to Bruce’s com­mit­tee.

“We com­plet­ed our full re­port, which forms part of the ev­i­dence for the com­mit­tee. I’m not at lib­er­ty to dis­close the re­sults of our in­ves­ti­ga­tion un­til the com­mit­tee re­ports to the min­is­ter. Once that hap­pens, it won’t be an is­sue to share, but for now, I can’t di­vulge any in­for­ma­tion,” Hutchin­son said.

The com­mit­tee, com­pris­ing Bruce, Kurt Cadet (Chair­man of the Oc­cu­pa­tion­al Safe­ty and Health Au­thor­i­ty), and Ashti Ma­habir (an at­tor­ney in the Of­fice of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al and Le­gal Af­fairs), was tasked with ex­am­in­ing the Fire Ser­vice’s han­dling of the De­cem­ber 16, 2024, fire at Mor­ris-Ju­lian’s home on Far­fan Street, Ari­ma. 

The team was ap­point­ed on De­cem­ber 20, 2024.

The in­ves­ti­ga­tion was ini­tial­ly ex­pect­ed to be com­plet­ed with­in two weeks. Min­is­ter Hinds had pre­vi­ous­ly as­sured the pub­lic that the find­ings would be made avail­able once fi­nalised. 

How­ev­er, ef­forts to reach Hinds for com­ment on the re­port were un­suc­cess­ful, as calls to his phone went unan­swered.